unable to find 'hidden files'

My macbook constantly runs out of space, when looking through the disk utility, it says it has 10GB of hidden files, totalling totalling 72 GB but when I type 'du -h' at my user folder it gives me only 65GB of files.

So where it is this almost 8GB missing? I've looked everywhere I could think of.

Thank you for your time.

P.S.: I did a rather quick research in google and here, but only found threads related to files/folder that are actually consuming space not about this difference between what disk utility and du -h.

Hello there
My macbook constantly runs out of space, when looking through the disk utility, it says it has 10GB of hidden files, totalling totalling 72 GB but when I type 'du -h' at my user folder it gives me only 65GB of files.
So where it is this almost 8GB missing? I've looked everywhere I could think of.
Thank you for your time.
P.S.: I did a rather quick research in google and here, but only found threads related to files/folder that are actually consuming space not about this difference between what disk utility and du -h.

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Could it be the sleep image file? If you have 8GB of RAM, the sleepimage file can be about that exact size.
/private/var/vm/sleepimage
How are you searching for those hidden files? You could try using EasyFind (set the prefs to show hidden files), its free and much better than Spotlight for almost everything.https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11076/easyfind

I've checked that also and that is some spacing being used there. But I'm referring to 8GB in my user's folder. Not in the system root folder.

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You could download TinkerTool (from macupdate.com etc) and use that to show all hidden files, check your home folder and then reverse the show hidden files setting.
There are other tools available that may be better, like OmniDiskSweeperhttp://en.softonic.com/s/omni-sweeper:mac

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